Plastic is everywhere in our daily lives; despite an increasing awareness of the threat, it poses to the environment. It’s in our food, in hygiene products, in the packaging of most of what we buy and, unfortunately, also in our oceans. We can’t live without it, or at least drastically reduce its consumption. In the last 10 years, we have manufactured more plastics than in all human history.
Colleges generate enormous amounts of plastic waste, which is toxic to people and the environment, and never goes away. The plastic responsibility awareness led us to think about the concept of plastic neutrality. In this context, the college started a Plastic Neutral Drive (Vasantha Madhavam) which aims to a spring by measurably reducing plastic waste and pollution in college campus and its toxic impacts on people and the environment.
The college is continuously committed to work towards minimizing plastic-usage. In the campus, there is complete ban on single-use plastic like plastic bags, plastic water bottles, disposable cups, plates and plastic straws in class room, labs, canteens and in the institution’s premises.
The college encourage students as well as staff to use steel lunch boxes and carry a water bottle with them rather than drink from packaged bottles. The college canteen has also started using steel plates and cups.
The use of flex made out of Polyvinyl chloride (PVC), commonly used as publicity materials for various programmes that can cause immense health and environmental issues has been completely banned in the college. The college encourage the use of alternatives like cloth banner, flex made of Pandanus and coconut palm leaves. Also, the use of electronic banners and brochures are supported.
The students who received training from our college for wealth from waste concept have received first prize for their worthy products in an exhibition competition from ICAR-CPCRI (Central Plantation Crop Research Institute), Kayamkulam.
